Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Did you know that a single ragweed plant can produce 1 billion grains of pollen in a season? Or that most pollen that causes allergy problems is so small that it is invisible to the human eye? From an ...

STV has broadcast its first pollen forecast of the season, as the familiar sniffles begin to return for many. As spring gets ...

Hay fever has been a yearly inevitability for me for as long as I can remember. As a kid, it meant humiliating nosebleeds in the middle of the classroom—and as an adult, it’s streaming mascara and ...

From pollen forecasting, honey analysis and climate-related changes in plant-pollinator interactions, analysing pollen plays an important role in many areas of research. Microscopy is still the gold ...